ITALY-ABYSSINIA: Intolerable Presumption!

In the Fascist Senate at Rome last
week, Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona had just finished
arousing speech on his colonial budget, on conditions in the North
African colony of Libya. Up to the tribune stomped Benito Mussolini
himself.

"Honorable Senators!" he cried, and every Fascist leaned forward,
knowing that potent words would follow: ". . . The problem of
Italo-Ethiopian relations is the order of the day, and not only in
Italy. . . . One rumor abroad in some foreign circles is to be denied
formally immediatelya rumor of Franco-British...